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From: Nick Rout <nick@×××××××.nz>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Allow a user to restart net.wlan0?
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 00:35:02
Message-Id: y01Xz2Nm.1159835227.0935640.nick@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Allow a user to restart net.wlan0? by Mark Knecht
1 On 10/2/2006, "Mark Knecht" <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
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5 >On 10/2/06, Devon Miller <devon.c.miller@×××××.com> wrote:
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7 >> emerge app-admin/sudo
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11 >> Edit /etc/sudoers and add:
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15 >> username ALL= NOPASSWD: /etc/init.d/ner.wlan0
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19 >> Where username is his login. To run it:
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21 >> sudo /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 restart
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25 >> dcm
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31 >Thanks guys. I should have thought of sudo myself. I don't use it
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33 >much. With your help I'm now able to do what I needed to do.
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37 >Thanks,
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39 >Mark
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43 I wonder if this could be avoided by using the madwifi[-ng] driver and
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45 avoiding the windows thing altogether? I found it worked well, as does
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47 the freebsd kernel driver.
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